Tikkabik

So Corey pointed me towards the Belief System Selector, with a caveat that it's for entertainment purposes only.

It's basically a twenty question quiz that attempts to divine what world religion you should adopt, based on your own personal views. I wholly agree with Corey's assessment: Some questions are either so vaguely worded or provide such little wiggle room that you're forced to give an answer you don't want to.

Having said that, I too found it eerily disturbing that the three religions that the selector chose for me as top hits are, arguably, the only three religions I've ever been able to personally identify with.

Apparently I'm batting .1000 for Mahayana Buddhism, which seems subtly ironic given my capacious belly and penchant for head-shaving. But, I can tell you this much: What little I've studied of Buddhism has always rung true for me. Always. Ever since my first exposure to it, oddly enough on a field trip for my Sunday School, when I was a kid. Maybe it's time to look more into this.

The other two, still well within the ninetieth percentile by a safe margin, were Neo-Paganism (Wicca, Druidism, and a whole bunch of other stuff all lumped into one neat package) and Unitarian Universalism -- the only religion I ever practiced as a youth with any regularity, mainly because it was the one my mum was drawn to -- and, not coincidentally, the source of the Sunday School field trip that interested me in Buddhism in the first place (which, by the way, my mother was teaching at the time).

Okay, I think I've neatly tied this together into a closed loop.